Indispensable Partners in Growing Markets Around the World for America's Agricultural

1. Indispensable Partners in Growing Markets Around the World for America's Agricultural Suzanne Heinen Senior Counselor to the Under Secretary USDA/Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services

2. Transportation Related Pathways This category includes all the various pathways related to transportation of people and goods. Subcategories include: • Modes of Transportation • Military Travel and Transportation of Military Vehicles • Items Used in Shipping Process • Mail/Internet/Overnight Shipping Companies • Travel/Tourism/Recreation/Relocation See Diagram 1 for more details Miscellaneous Pathways This category includes various pathways that did not fit into the other two categories. Subcategories include: • Biocontrol • Release of Animals for Religious, Cultural or Other Reasons • Other Aquatic Pathways • Natural Spread of Established Populations of Invasive Species • Ecosystem Disturbance (long and short term) See Diagram 3 for more details Living Industry Pathways This category includes all the various pathways associated with living organisms and/or their by-products. Subcategories include: • Plant Pathways • Food Pathways (market ready or near market ready – transporting animals for consumption) • Non-Food Animal Pathways (transporting animals for reasons other than consumption) • Non-Living Animal and Plant Related Pathways (animal and plant products) See Diagram 2 for more details Categorization of Pathways

3. L4 Nonliving Animal and Plant Related Pathways L1 Plant Pathways (Aquatic and Terrestrial) L2 Food Pathways (Transportation of animals for immediate consumption) L3 Non-Food Animal Pathways (Transporting animals for reasons other than consumption, excluding entertainment which is covered in the diagram for transportation pathways) • Living Industry Pathways • includes all pathways associated with • living organisms and/or their by-products) L2.1 Live Seafood (market ready- to be consumed Immediately) L2.2 Other Live Food Animals L2.3 Plant & Plant Parts As Food L3.1 Bait L3.2 Pet Aquarium Trade (Plants covered under plant trade) L3.3 Aquaculture (Incl. organisms classified as seafood when shipped for other purposes) L3.4 Non-Pet Animals (Animals for research, zoos, public aquaria, fur harvest, livestock for non-food purposes such as hunt clubs, racing, breeding, draft animals) L3.5 Release of Organisms For Religious, Cultural or Other Reasons (Prayer animal release, animals released at weddings, animal liberations, etc.) L1.1 Importation of Plants for Research L1.2 Potting Soils, Growing Mediums, Sods, and Other Materials (Fertilizers, bioengineering materials such as live turf and erosion control technologies, live fascines, wetland restoration and wildflower sods,etc.) L1.3 Plant Trade (Agricultural, nursery, Landscape, floral, raw Logs, etc.) L1.3.1 Plant Parts L1.3.2 Whole Plants L4.1 Processed and Partially Processed Meat and Meat Processing Waste L4.2 Frozen Seafood L4.3 Minimally Processed Animal Products (Hides, trophies feathers, etc.) L4.4 Minimally Processed Plant Products (Logs, chips, firewood, mulch, straw, hay, baskets, etc.) L1.3.1.1 Above Ground Plant Parts (Cuttings, budwood, etc.) L1.3.1.2 Below Ground Plant Parts (Bulbs, roots, culms, tubers, etc.) L1.3.1.3 Seeds and the Seed Trade L1.3.1.4 Aquatic Propagules Subpathways Each of the categories above has subpathways: 1) The organism “in trade” itself – whether intentionally released (authorized or unauthorized) or escaped 2) Hitchhikers on or in the organism in trade 3) Hitchhikers in water, food, nesting/bedding, or growing medium NOTE: Hitchhikers can include plants, animals, invertebrates, parasites, diseases and pathogens

4. U.S. Agricultural Exports 142.6 • Records 110 Exports 42.9 • Imports • Trade Surplus

5. Importance of Trade for U.S. Agriculture

6. Global Food & Feed Trade Projected to Surpass $1.6 trillion by 2022 Source: FAOSTAT; USDA/FAS Projections